“I’ll be back, and I’ll just have to tell everyone what to do and drive them all mad,” reports the Manchester Evening News.

Clive Owen was forced to take time off(Image: Channel 4)

Clive confessed: “I am going to be a bit nervous, but I am alright with it, I’ll do exactly what they tell me, and the next thing you wake up and it’s done.

“I have had one you see so I know the procedure, like it or not that is what is happening tomorrow.”

Later in the programme, Clive is shown instructing his sons on overseeing the farm whilst he recuperated.